Freedom W&S District, WY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Freedom W&S District
Freedom W&S District serves about 300 people through 83 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Lincoln County, Wyoming. EPA system ID: WY5600158; phone on file: 307-226-4097. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Freedom W&S District is 21 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 ppb |
| 2024 | 4 ppb |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 21 ppb over 15 |
Against other Wyoming systems
Of the 311 Wyoming systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 0 are over 15 ppb right now and 16 have gone over at some point. Freedom W&S District's 5 ppb sits at the 94th percentile in Wyoming and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Lincoln County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Freedom W&S District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kemmerer-Diamondville Jpb | 3,348 | 2 ppb |
| Star Valley Ranch, Town Of | 2,894 | 8 ppb |
| Afton, Board Of Pub Utilities | 2,000 | 1 ppb |
| Leisure Valley Inc/ Star Valley Rv Park | 1,897 | 1 ppb |
| Alpine, Town Of | 1,300 | 1 ppb |
| Bedford Water & Sewer District | 750 | 1 ppb |
| Greater Smoot W&S District | 720 | 1 ppb |
| Cokeville, Town Of | 535 | 1.1 ppb |
| Nordic Ranches Water, Llc. | 465 | 3 ppb |
| Thayne, Town Of | 366 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Thayne, WY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Thayne, WY may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Freedom W&S District whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.